IS-2 "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Decided to go with a big square beam as an unditching aid rather than a round type.
Washed heavily with a blend of track wash and watered down black acrylic art paint, it’s taken on a quite realistic hue.
Balsa wood stock to enable easy shaping.
I dusted over it with Europe Earth to match the rest of the tank.
PVA glue undiluted was applied to the fuel tank brackets where the beam makes contact & once it’s set I will tie it off with suitable chain.
The very back end of it was broken by hand & looks pretty close to a real almost fully broken wooden beam .
All I will have left then is to arrange and secure any looted gear on the deck.
You've all heard of the "fog of War" ............this ?, this is the "log of War"
Washed heavily with a blend of track wash and watered down black acrylic art paint, it’s taken on a quite realistic hue.
Balsa wood stock to enable easy shaping.
I dusted over it with Europe Earth to match the rest of the tank.
PVA glue undiluted was applied to the fuel tank brackets where the beam makes contact & once it’s set I will tie it off with suitable chain.
The very back end of it was broken by hand & looks pretty close to a real almost fully broken wooden beam .
All I will have left then is to arrange and secure any looted gear on the deck.
You've all heard of the "fog of War" ............this ?, this is the "log of War"
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Never doubted you could pull this off! Love the look of the beam, very clever! Great weathering too! TOTM entry?
Cheers,
Eric.
Cheers,
Eric.
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Herman,
The Beam really works. Especially as it looks to have been broken by a previous use! The front spares look exact as well. Great Job o' Realism!
regards,
Painless
The Beam really works. Especially as it looks to have been broken by a previous use! The front spares look exact as well. Great Job o' Realism!
regards,
Painless
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
All that hard work and skill on the IS-2M, and we all get excited about the unditching beam. Yeah, I like it too. It gave me an idea: make a broken beam showing unweathered wood on its the jagged end. Because I live in the woods, I am familiar with that look after wind storms.
- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
EAO wrote:Never doubted you could pull this off! Love the look of the beam, very clever! Great weathering too! TOTM entry?
Cheers,
Eric.
Thanks Mr E, TOTM ??...........Perhaps yes!
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- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Cheers Mr Wolf, that was the idea, to get a look of a misused beam rather than the usual mint looking one.PainlessWolf wrote:Herman,
The Beam really works. Especially as it looks to have been broken by a previous use! The front spares look exact as well. Great Job o' Realism!
regards,
Painless
Plus, I didnt want to use a tree . Im theorising that this was part of a building or bridge that was available to the crew to salvage & put to use.
Although '202' does not have this visible, it might have had one, so I'm calling it 'Plausible' !!
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- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Thanks Proff, idea is that it was sawn off the structure it was attached to such as a building or bridge, to be used as a robust tool to help the crew if required.Herr Dr. Professor wrote:All that hard work and skill on the IS-2M, and we all get excited about the unditching beam. Yeah, I like it too. It gave me an idea: make a broken beam showing unweathered wood on its the jagged end. Because I live in the woods, I am familiar with that look after wind storms.
Plus it blanks off quite a large area of open side armour from the dreaded 'Faustniks'
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- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2M "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Chained on now.
Perhaps a little more dust pigment & a touch of exhaust soot next to the exhaust outlet & thats that for the beam.
Stowage now, and to invent a way of having it on the deck but in an easily removable fashion
Shame to have a 360deg rotating turret if it cant
Perhaps a little more dust pigment & a touch of exhaust soot next to the exhaust outlet & thats that for the beam.
Stowage now, and to invent a way of having it on the deck but in an easily removable fashion
Shame to have a 360deg rotating turret if it cant
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HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85
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- stu_the_flat
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Re: IS-2 "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
this looks amazing!
- HERMAN BIX
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Re: IS-2 "BRUTE OF THE PROLETARIAT"
Thanks Mr Flat, we try eh !
I had a bit of a moment when thinking about how to get the stowage to sit on the deck but be removable for times when I want the turret to rotate 360.
Put some plastic sandwich wrap on the deck & used a PVA soaked bit of fabric placed over that so that hopefully it can have the stowage attached to it yet not be stuck firm on the deck.
This could be abandoned rickety-tick but it’s worth a try.
If it reduces the sound too much that could also hasten it’s demise !!
I had a bit of a moment when thinking about how to get the stowage to sit on the deck but be removable for times when I want the turret to rotate 360.
Put some plastic sandwich wrap on the deck & used a PVA soaked bit of fabric placed over that so that hopefully it can have the stowage attached to it yet not be stuck firm on the deck.
This could be abandoned rickety-tick but it’s worth a try.
If it reduces the sound too much that could also hasten it’s demise !!
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85